How peaceful were the Minoans, really? Why did they leave behind no iconography of war, no murals of battles, no towering ...

In Greek mythology, Daedalus was commissioned by King Minos to build the labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, a terrible beast ...

who lauded King Minos and Crete in their mythology. Linear B, the Cretan writing system adopted by the Mycenaeans, would be the basis for the Greek in which the poet Homer would write his two ...

Miraculous births of figures like Jesus, Horus, Heracles, and Alexander the Great are found in ancient myths across different ...

When their astonishing ruins were excavated in the 19th century, the Minoans were named after the mythical king Minos of Greek legends, who kept a Minotaur in a labyrinth under his palace at ...

According to Greek mythology, the Minotaur is a mythical creature with the head of a bull and the body of a man who dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, an elaborate maze. As the legend goes, every ...

The Minoans were the first great Greek civilisation ... They were known as the Minoans after their legendary king, Minos. Image caption, This is the Great Palace of Knossos on the island of ...

(ATR) Minos Kyriakou ascended to the heights of sport ... to remove sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanoufrom the Greek team over doping violations. The controversy generated by the ...

One of the longest-enduring symbols of Ancient Greek mythology ... Set on Crete, it was commissioned by King Minos and built ...

In Greek mythology, Daedalus was commissioned by King Minos to build the labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, a terrible beast with a bull head. When Athenian hero Theseus penetrated the labyrinth ...

The Minoans were the first great Greek civilisation ... They were known as the Minoans after their legendary king, Minos. Image caption, This is the Great Palace of Knossos on the island of ...